Healer''s Tale - Transforming Medicine and Culture

This is an enquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century. It examines how "runaway" technology has thrown up ethical questions in medicine.

Info autore

Sharon R. Kaufman is associate professor of anthropology and research medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Riassunto

This is an enquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century. It examines how "runaway" technology has thrown up ethical questions in medicine.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sharon R Kaufman, Sharon R. Kaufman
• Editore: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.12.1994
• EAN: 9780299135546
• ISBN: 978-0-299-13554-6
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Life Course Studies; Life course studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie